Taking Ben to Work

I work at the library and am lucky enough to get to take them to work with me. I work 4 days a week for 3 hours a day. The dogs get to come and work on "auto settle", "sit stay", "down stay", "loose leash walking", and people distractions. Ben went to work for the first time on Wednesday and did pretty good. He went today too and was 100% better then Wednesday! It was amazing how fast he caught onto everything. :)

Ben working on "auto settle" excpet I think I had told him to down in this picture and then I decided to work on "auto settle". lol

"down stay" while I put away books.



After work, I took Ben into town and worked on three different sets of stair cases. They were all different, one was an outside fire escape, one was an indoor stair case that was cement, and one was another indoor stair case with carpet. He isn't totally comfortable on stairs so we are working on this with him. We go up and down, up and down, and stop half way when we are going up and down. He is getting better and hopefully by Walk and Talk time (March 5th) he'll be a pro and won't be scared! :)
First stair case: outdoor fire escape. Open sides, open backed, and weird texture. Did AWESOME!

Inside the PT place there was a grate so we did a "sit" on it. :) And then we worked on the cement stairs. He wasn't as comfortable on these, but it was darkish inside and the stairs were weird.

Final stop for the day, the hardware store and these stairs were carpet and very steap and they seem to go on forever! He seemed most uncomfortable with these, he was rushing a lot and taking treats really hard so I think this is one we will have to work hard on.

Have a good night!